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ypf. fXXIf jro iw Entered as second class mail matter at Boston. Maas, under tha act of March S. 1S79 242 Washington SU BOSTON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1933 EIGHTEEN PAGES COPYRIGHT. 1933.

BE THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. (2) TWO CENTS BOARD VOTES 51,290 JOBS 5) Ml niW 'o City and Town Officials Try to Reach Quotas Large C. W. A. Grants for Hob Mean Work for 2600 Has Done Some Good, Ely Says Is Silent tin Hultman But Vote 24 to 13 After Long Debate Bill Is Passed to Third Extensive Government Projects for U.

S. Property Reading With Amendments Efforts Due Today, to Reach judges Refusal to Keep Officers Out Of Mayfair Heartens Leaders Agreement in Time For End of Prohibition Tuesday RIVAL LEADERS IN TODAYS GAME Projects Involving employment of 51,290 persons in Massachusetts had been approved when the State Civil Works' Board adjourned late last evening after one of its longest and busiest sessions. Increased activity on the part of town and city officials, approbation of State department projects, further large grants to the city of Boston and announcement of extensive federal projects to be carried out in Government; property, helped to swell the totals at the State House veste-day. Approval was given to Mayor Curley for a list or projects calling for an expenditure of more than J500 000 and for the employment of 2600 more persons, including many wbHe col'ar workers. lays morder at LOTTERIES DOOR Fee 1 on Wholesale Beer and Uine Reduced, to $500, Ballot Local Option Changed The police siege of night clubs and speakeasies in Boston continued last night, with Gov Ely admitting that' the new method adopted by Police Commissioner Eugene C.

Hultman has done some good and at least' helps In carrying out the Qpvernorg ultimatum to the police to rid the city of illegal liquor traffic. On the basis of evidence obtained during the vigil maintained inside and outside suspected speakeasies on the holiday, police yesterday were Crime Board Suspects Police Protection granted a score, or more warrants dials Pari-Mutuels Might Help Situation Emergency Manufacturers Measure Enacted, and Signed By Gov Ely at Uestfield Fort Devens Project -Announcement was made by Civil Works Board member William B. Coy that more than $450,000 had been allotted by the Federal Civil Works Board for employment of more than 1000 men in improving Fort Devens, Fort Banks, the Springfield Armory and the seacoast defense units of Boston and New Bedford. It was also announced that Washington looked favorably on a project for the 1st Corps Area and other Federal property projects located in Massachusetts, calling for additional thousands of dollars and creating thousands of jobs. The State Division of Fisheries and Game yesterday received appropria- which they are holding as threats against establishments which might resume the illegal sale of liquor.

Heartened also by the refusal of Judge Stanley E. Qua to enjoin the heads of the Police Department from keeping uniformed officers on duty In the Club Mayfair, Commissioner Hultman and Supt Martin H. King declared they will continue to keep pclice on duty until the clubs and speakeasies are forced by lack of business to close their doors. Another sect. on of the report of the Special Crime Commission made pub-tc yesterday afternoon, aaya repr-rctatives of tne underworld conduct the lotteries in this State.

The commission says "Theie is rea-m to bcLeve that their control has tcea enforced by tiolence and even murder and has received police Continued on the Second Page Ceatiaurd the Page Continued on the Eleventh Pnge F. MAY. REPLY ON WEDNESDAY TODAYS GLOBE CONTENTS TODAYS GLOBE CONTENTS TODAYS GLOBE CONTENTS President to Address Council. of Churches i r- i.t i tlLv'r FRANK MALONET. BOSTON WASHINGTON, Dec 1 A.

vigorous reply to critics of the Admin istration monetary policy and new details of what is in mind for fututs probably will be Included in a speech President Roosevelt will make next week. HOLY CROSS FAVORED GUNMAN GETS $2895 PAYROLL All provision for taverns was eliminated from the Liquor Control art by the Massachusetts Senate yesterday, by vote that threatens deadlock on the liquor act and puts in jeopardy the passage of hard liquor legislation In this State in time for the day of repeal of the 8th Amendment next Tuesday. The bill was passed to third reading', after a number of amendments, were adopted and many others rejected. The wholesale beer and wine license fee was reduced from $1000 to 0500. The local option questions for State election were simplified, io isk the voter whether hard liquor, or beer and wine, or both, shall be sold In his community.

The tavern section was struck out of the bill by to 13, after a two-hour debate In which taverns were assailed by their foes as saloons in disguise and praised by their proponents as the only solution of the speakeasy problem. The House of Representatives, having already voted in favor of establishing taverns, will be given a chance today to conform to the Senates views. The members are expected to refuse to do sq, however, and a struggle is forecast between the two branches to bring about an agreement. Committees on conference on the" part of both Houses will -make an effort to persuade one body or the other to recede effect a compromise. 'j Continued on the second Page Page 13 President drives to meeting to hear wife speak.

More behind Tracy incident than mere displeasure at actor's antics, nay Miss Peak. New literature. PiSge Dorothy Dix' letter box. Murder la a by Charles Dutton. Sandra, by Vida Hurst.

-i Culbertson on contract. Page 15 The Globes cross-word puzzle. Page IS Comic Strips. Page 17 Commercial news. Death Notices.

Page IS Compensatory taxes ordered on jute and paper products that compete with cotton. Missouri County prosecutor asks State to press lynching inquiry. Philadelphia matrons smart under severe tongue lashing by Ethel Barrymore and Eva Le Gallienne. Mrs Roosevelt pleads for unemployed women. Another threat letter sent to Newton father of two.

Johnson makes effort to prevent dispute in Congress for labor share in industry management boards. Middlesex Grand Jury to hear evidence in John M. Hinckley death case. Boy, 3. feared lost in Medwav woods; 100 volunteers brave cold to aid search, IN TODAYS CONTEST Another g.ood comic section tomorrow.

lie tturejo Had it. Messenger Held Up When Traffic Blocks Car Page 1 Massachusetts Senate cuts taverns lut of Liqucr Control bill. Police siege of clubs and suspected continued Ely admits new sethod "has done some good. -Crowd of 25,009 will see Boston Col- and Hoiy Cross clash on gTidiron today. kx-grid star bring down Jamaica Plain burglar with flying tackle.

More dividends for depositors in four tost companies. Gunman gets $2895 payroll in Soufn End holdup. Night club porter slain in South End. State Civil Works Board approves ojects involving 51,290 Jobs. Crime Commission says lottery con-toy enforced by murder.

President Roosevelt expected to ttfly to critics Wednesday. Patterson, found guilty third time in "Scott! boro Case, faces death again. Will Rogers dispatch. Page 3 Judge Field takes under advisement Daniel H. Coakley petition for re-timission to bar.

Hopkins comments on C. W. A. to mow the perpetual load of unemployment. which was 3.000.000 in 1928.

Cut-pri' milk lor hospitals barred In Miik Director Snvder's recommendation. Ford dealer given Government contact for 709 trucks. Page Public works allotments include Lex-ngton. Worcester. Providence and projects.

Massachusetts fishermen ask Presi-nt to retain Coast Guard as inde-sentient unit. Theodore Roosevelt attacks Member of Dai! Eireann, visiting ton, assails De Valera. Earle Wjmekoop before two courts death of wife. Vmomsts win again in Northern Ireland. Haver Curley appoints two assis-ants to corporation counsel.

Crowd of 25,000 to See Boston College Clash With Rival OUR CHRISTMAS CLUB Now Open Thief and Two Accomplices Escape in South End Page Suspected kidnaper ends life in cell; Hamm case jury foreman gets death threats. Page 4 The Associated Press announces All-America football selections. Army rated 9-5 favorite to beet Notre Dame in Yankee Stadium clash today; crowd of 78.000 expected. Tom Yawkey's hunting party remembers friends in Boston. Page 5 Boston soccer team meets Pawtucket Rangers at Lonsdale av today.

Eagles conclude pregame practice with long kicking and passing workout. Holy Cross squad is at full strength for with Boston College. Boston College "students and supporters burn Crusader in effigy; have automobile parade and enthusiastic smoker at City Club. Sportlight. Page Princeton will strive to defeat Yale by wide margin today.

Bruins Cuds beat Providence, 3 to 1. Possibilities of post-season clashes for leading schoolboy elevens arouse speculation among fans. More than 750 basket-ball coaches, officials and players attend rules interpretation meeting in Harvard gym; Crimson. Independents top Harvard Varsity. Schoolboy sidelights.

Page 7 News of Greater Boston churches. Ellsworth expedition to leave Dunedin. for the Antarctic on Tuesday. Page Stocks lose most of early gains in late liquidation. Page 9 Financial news.

Port of Boston news. Page If New films of week reviewed. Paramount film producer, Charles ft. Rogers, on visit here to mother; seeks Boston talent. re Waxey Gordon, beer baron, geta 10 years and is fined $20,000 for income tax violations; also must pay $60,000 costs of trial.

United States nlans to import 4.000.-000 gallons of uquor in twe months. iGovernment orders for stoves to keep C. C. C. men warm rushes foundries.

Gloucester trawler floated off Virginia. i Page 13 Editorial Page. Page IS Richard B. Mellon, multimillionaire banker, dies at Pittsburg. Funeral of Judge James A Lowell will be held at noon today.

Military funeral is held for Joseph Kenefick of Forest Hills. R. F. C. Chairman Jesse H.

Jones cleared in Senate loan inquiry. 25c 50c $1 $2 S5 $1 0-For 50 week Chsckt mailed Nov. 30, 1934 up mud. And Boston must have a firm field under its cleats to win this game, for the tremendous w'eight and power of the Purple rushline can be matched, only by superior BURGLAR DOWNED BY FLYING TACKLE By JERRY NASON By thet span of a barrel stave, heavy Holy Cross will rumble on to Alumni Iield in Newton at 2 oclock this afternoon a favorite to beat Boston College in their 31st exchange compliments upon that Jime-streaked plot of ground known as a football field. The popular odds run 5 to.

4 on the Crusader on a dry playing field and string out to 10 to 6 should it com Halted in, traffic as he was driving with a payroll of $2895.98 to the offi-'e of the Cable Raincoat Company, 68 Northampton st. South End, yesterday afternoon, Walter S. Young, 34 Hammond st, Roxbury, Negro handy man for the company, was robbed of the money by a man about 24 years old, who jumped on the running-board and grabbed the package containing the bills. Too frightened to make an outcry he told police. Young drove a few yards to the companys offices and ran upstairs to announce he had been robbed.

Attempt to Settle It Today Both the Senate and House will go at it today. It is expected the fight over taverns will be resumed today. Records Exactly Alike Coming with a late season surge which has mowed down the forces of Boston Georgetown, Vii- The BOSTON FIVE CENTS SAVINGS BANK Continued on the Eleventh Page Enters House Where Grid Stars Stage Party Continued on the Fifth Pago At Our Thru Offitut 30 SCHOOL STREET, BOSTON 1906 CENTRE ST W. ROX. 696 CENTRE JAM.

PL. SC0TTSB0R0 CASE NEGRO CONVICTED Continued on the Second Page NO GLOBE SUBSCRIPTION SOLICITORS The Giobc does not employ sub-wription solicitors, and nv so presenting themsthes should be turned oier to the police EX-PORTER OF NIGHT CLUB MURDERED DEPOSITORS WILL SHARE $1,600,000 THE WEATHER Patterson Under Yerdict of Death Third Time New Dividends for Four WARREN INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS 3 PARK STREET Boslon -Jsfltg'rv Oonooilo Shot by Two Men. Who Jump From Doorway ggg1, genuine comfort Trust Companies Forecast for Boston and. Vicinity; Saturday partly cloudy with slowly rising temperature, iollowed by rain at night or on Sun-- day, and moderate to fresh westerly winds. Washington Forecast Southern New England: Saturday partly cloudy and slightly by rain at night or Attempting a getaway by 'Jumping from a second-story porch after breaking into the house at 30 Arborway Jamaica Plain, where a group of former collegeathletes were holding a party, last midnight, a 19-year-old youth was overhauled and brought down with a flying tackle by the occupants of the house and a guest.

Charles A. Connors, 42, a former Boston College athlete, now engaged in the lumber business, made a flying tackle, together with Frank Abeam, former star halfback for Brookline High, just as the intruder was running across the lawn of the Connors' estate. Close behind Connors and Ahearn when they captured theyouth were other guests in the night-befoie-the B. Cross game celebration. Among them were James Linnehan, captain of the 1916 Boston College team; Bob O'Keefe, former guard lor Holy Cross and now.

coach of the Revere High School team; S. Clark, tackle for Holy Cross in 1930; Tom Turk Me Huhwav Kntrane I 0 DECATUR, Ala, Dec 1 (A. third verdict of death today waa returned against Heywbod Patterson, 21-year-old Negro, one of seven defendants in the Scottsboro Case, for an alleged attack on a white woman who was hoboing on a freight train. In a courtroom so quiet the sound of men breathing could be heard, Walter Green, clerk of ths ourt. read the verdict, We, tha jury, find the Interest Begins DEC.

11 aasscrmuasoa warmer, followed on Sunday. -Northern New Join Our 1934 CHRISTMAS CLUB England Saturday partly cloudy and not so cold, followed by rain or snow at night and possibly on Sunday, with colder Sunday night. The Temperature Yesterday at Thompson's Spa 3 a 45; 6 a 44; 9 a 43; 12 41; 3 m. 40; 6 32; 9 m. 28; 12 mid, 25.

Average temperature yesterday, 38 3-24. Continued on the Second Pnge Charles Merriman, 36, colored, formerly a night club porter, was shot twice by' two men at Columbus av and Wellington st last night and died a few minutes after he had been admitted to Boston City Hospital. The men jumped from a doorway as Merriman was passing and both fired at him. Two bullets entered his chest. As the assassins fled along Massachusetts av toward the Back Bay in a taxicab, a passing automobitlst placed Merriman in his cat and took him to the hospital.

-Merrimans home was at 704 Columbus av. A South End Negro was held at Pqlice Headquarters las night as a suspect, but it is believed he will be released. State Bank Commissioner Guy announced yesterday afternoon that the Supreme Court having authorized the payment of further dividends to depositors of the savings departments of the Brockton Trust Company, Medford Trust Company, Revere Trust Company and Salem Trust Company, approximately 30,000 depositors will bene-jfit. These additional dividends will amount to approximately $1,600,000 and will be made possible by loans which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has agreed to make, principally on mortgages held by the savings departments of these triet companies," the commissioner said. The arrangements with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

the commissioner said, have been speedily accomplished through the efforts of Edward H. Osgood, district manager of the corporation at Boston, in cooperation with Henry H. Pierce, super-visor of liquidations of the Banking i Department, and the liquidating agents of the four trust companies. 1 OTh. The Continued on the Eighteenth Page Will RogersDispatch Tell Your Neighb ors About The Globes Editorial Page HOME SAVINGS BANK J) DUMB-BELLS incorporated tut Deposits Go On Interest THAT'S OUveT5t ii Dec.

1 1 BOX DlOHT oRVSf. MQ cogveR-rs Boston San Francisco Wiljiston St Paul St Louis Chicago Nantucket Portland, Eastumt N-w Ynrk Washmston Jacksonville Miami It should read in every New England home. Tell your neighbors why you read it. Advise them to read and use the Globes advertising columns. 75 TREM0NT ST BOSTON TWO GUNMEN ROB GAS STATION ATTENDANT RADIO PROGRAMS Roeflal to Boston Globe.

Convrleht. IIM BEVERLY HILLS, Colif, Dee I' This staying on the gold is a tough job, 1 dnles a overybody is on itV If you aro on the gold and the rest of th boys are not, why you change your money into theirs, then demsnd it in gold-. Now Franco is on the gold and aro cuckoo. She reads 'every morning how many millions of gold waa shipped out the day before (just like we used to do before we went off the gold) and its gradually driving them 'nuts. So it looks liko everybody has either got to bo on it, or off of it.

You cant play solo. Yours, WILL ROGERS. Interest Begins DEC. 11 Join Our iiom uur Want Advertisements Store Advertisements General Advertisements Be sure to read the advertisements in tomorrows and in the daily Globe next week. 1934 Christmas Club Writs for folder, "Bonhir.g by Wall UNION SAVlilGS PPIiK approximate percentage and amount of the dividend to be paid by each of the banks and the number of depositors are as follows: Number of Depositors Brokton Trust To.

$33.1.000 25ft SIMM! Met! lord Trust Co. S75.IUHI 25 ft 13.000 Revere Trust ixo.ooo 20-4 000 Salem Trust Co 235.0UU 25 ft 6,000 These dividends will be paid as soon as practicable, and it is hoped the funds will be released in time for PAGE 7 From Globe Studio of WEEI 8:05 A Looking over the morning Globe. 12:15 M-News bulletins. 4 :30 M-Newa bulletina. 6:30 M-Newa 11:30 M-Newa bulletina.

Herbert S. White, attendant at a filling atation at 603 Hyde Park av. West Roxbury, was held up last night by two robbed of $20. The robbera had plstola and threatened to use them, if White delayed passing over what cash he had. The pair dipve away in an automobile.

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